IndiaIndia optimistic as COVID threatens T20 World Cup double whammy
Amlan Chakraborty
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Fans react as they wait to enter the Narendra Modi Stadium before the start of the third test match between India and England in Ahmedabad, India, February 24, 2021. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
India s cricket board is hoping it might be able to squeeze the remainder of its lucrative Indian Premier League into a crowded calendar and is still confident of hosting the T20 World Cup later this year, a top official told Reuters on Thursday.
Already looking at a $270 million revenue loss following the suspension of the IPL, the board faces a second financial hammer blow if the COVID-19 pandemic prevents India staging the ICC tournament in October and November.
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ANI
06 May 2021, 03:03 GMT+10
Sydney [Australia], May 5 (ANI): Todd Greenberg, the chief executive of the Australian Cricketers Association has advised his players to do proper homework before signing up for T20 leagues across the world.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 season got postponed on Tuesday due to rising number of Covid-19 cases and as a result, the Australian contingent that had come to India is now stranded and their only hope of entering Australia lies in the travel ban being lifted after May 15.
Last week, Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison had announced a travel ban on passenger flights from India till May 15.
“What we and the BCCI are working to do is to move the entire cohort out of India, where they will then wait until it’s possible to return to Australia,” CA chief executive Nick Hockley said.
“The BCCI has been working on a range of options. That’s now narrowed down to the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The BCCI are working through the final details of that at the moment and we expect that movement will happen in the next two to three days.”
The BCCI – India’s board of control for cricket – is committed to both phases of the cohort’s repatriation, Hockley said, including the second stage which would involve chartering a flight back to Australia.
By Amlan Chakraborty
NEW DELHI, May 5 (Reuters) - Several foreign players began heading home on Wednesday after the suspension of the Indian Premier League (IPL), with tournament organisers planning an airlift to Maldives or Sri Lanka for the stranded Australian cohort.
Hours after the lucrative cricket league was suspended on Tuesday because of India s coronavirus crisis, the English members of the Delhi Capitals squad rushed to Delhi from Ahmedabad to prepare for their return home.
The 38-strong contingent of Australian players, coaches, umpires and media pundits will have to wait longer, though, to get home, in the face of a ban on arrivals from India until at least May 15.